“with its missiles and death camps and atomic bombs that sealed humanity’s suicidal covenant with technology—was civilization’s Brennschluss, and we have been in free fall ever since.” -Wired
I picked out that word to get into.
With this and other articles that come out regularly, I got to thinking about how Shakespeare as the knighted playwright of England, has people shift the purposes and misuse quotes because he is so revered. Is Pynchon America's version. I mean the writing is so obscure it's hard to imagine that possible, but with the regularly produced articles, it seems possible.
"Pynchon teases out a hefty head trip of plots and subplots, introduces hundreds of characters, and riffs on rocket science, cinema, Germanic runology, Pavlovian behaviorism, probability theory, witchcraft, futurism, zoot-suit couture, psychedelic chemistry, and the annihilation of the dodo. But there is, amid the novel’s encyclopedic remit, something like a story."
"Some Marxist thinkers maintain that everything in history happens (at least) twice: first as tragedy, then as farce."
I guess this means Trump running for president this time means it's a farce, and he's just going to grift his supporters into handouts to float his poor business that needs grift to stay afloat, and the reason why he doesn't want his taxes exposed is because he lies on them, and he doesn't pay taxes because he's in so much debt. He's not a bazillionaire, the banks own him.
The article is a bit of a stretch, I mean this world is quite different, but you can bet with the legalization of marijuana across many states, and the fact that Pynchon smoked according to another article, means that we'll be groovin to his high writings. Someone visited him in California while he was writing GR and he smoked and partied with young people, and there was a girlfriend and children in the background. He introduced himself through a friend who went to Syracuse with him, and Pynchon was warry, but he hung out with him for a week.
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